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Articles

Awesome

• dsasmblr/game-hacking - Tutorials, tools, and more as related to reverse engineering video games.

Anti Forensics

• Removing Your PDF Metadata & Protecting PDF Files
  • Mirror copy of the script in this article is available at files/anti-forensics/cleaning-pdf.sh

Certifications

• OSCE
  • OSCE/CTP PREP GUIDE
  • OSCE Study Plan
• OSCP
  • Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) Review
  • OSCP Course & Exam Preparation

Digital Forensics and Incident Response

• A Newbie’s Guide to ESXi and VM Log Files
• Booting up evidence E01 image using free tools (FTK Imager & Virtualbox)
• Certificate Chain Cloning and Cloned Root Trust Attacks
  • Mirror copy (TLDR version) of the article is available at files/dfir/rouge-certificate-dfir.md
• Malicious USB Devices
• certsocietegenerale/IRM - Incident Response Methodologies
• 0x4D31/deception-as-detection - Deception based detection techniques mapped to the MITRE’s ATT&CK framework
• Detecting APT28, according to Hacker Huricane
  • Mirror copy (TLDR version) of the article is available at files/dfir/detecting-apt28.md
• Detecting malicious dynamic data exchange (DDE) to execute code in Microsoft Office documents
  • Detecting DDE in MS Office documents with YARA rules
  • Mirror copy (TLDR version) of the article is available at [files/dfir/detecting-dde.md](files/dfir/detecting-dde.md]
• [DFIR] DFIR on VDI deployments
• Finding and Decoding Malicious PowerShell Scripts
• Hidden Treasure: Intrusion Detection with ETW (Part 1)
• Logging Keystrokes with Event Tracing for Windows (ETW)
• Monitoring what matters – Windows Event Forwarding for everyone (even if you already have a SIEM.)
• nccgroup/Cyber-Defence
• Tales of a Threat Hunter 1
• Use Windows Event Forwarding to help with intrusion detection
• Windows Event Forwarding for Network Defense

Unix/Linux

• Can an SSH session be taken from memory?
• INTRO TO LINUX FORENSICS
• Linux Memory Forensics: Dissecting the User Space Process Heap
• KIT-CERT Checklist for Linux Forensics

IoT

• Internet Of Things Mobility Forensics

MacOS/iOS

• APPLE FILE SYSTEM IN MAC FORENSIC IMAGING AND ANALYSIS
• How to Acquire an iOS 11 Device Without the PIN/Passcode
• iOS 11: HEVC and HEIF (heic) files
• Monkey takes a .heic
• Mounting an APFS image in Linux
• Reading Notes database on macOS
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to macOS USB Forensics
• There’s Gold In Them There Blobs!

Windows

• (Am)cache still rules everything around me (part 2 of 1)
• Amcache and Shimcache in forensic analysis
• Automating large-scale memory forensics
• Carving EVTX
• Forensic Analysis of Systems that have Windows Subsystem for Linux Installed
• How to Crack Passwords for Password Protected MS Office Documents
• HUNTING EVENT LOGGING COVERUP
• MAC(b) times in Windows forensic analysis
• Memory Acquisition and Virtual Secure Mode
• pwndizzle/CodeExecutionOnWindows - A list of ways to execute code on Windows using legitimate Windows tools
• RecentApps Registry Key
• Some reminders about Windows file times
• Volume Shadow Copies in forensic analysis
• Windows, Now with built in anti forensics!
• Windows Drive Acquisition
• Windows event logs in forensic analysis
• Windows Privileged Access Reference
  • Mirror copy of the table is available at files/dfir/windows-privileged-access-reference.md
• Windows registry in forensic analysis
• Windows Security Identifiers (SIDs)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux and Forensic Analysi

Exploitation

• Guest Diary (Etay Nir) Kernel Hooking Basics

Platforms

ARM Exploitation

• ARM exploitation for IoT – Episode 1
• ARM exploitation for IoT – Episode 2
• ARM exploitation for IoT – Episode 3

Software Exploitation

Linux

• 64-bit Linux Return-Oriented Programming
• Adapting the POC for CVE-2017-1000112 to Other Kernels
• Blocking double-free in Linux kernel
• CVE-2016-2384: exploiting a double-free in the usb-midi linux kernel driver
• CVE-2017-2636: exploit the race condition in the n_hdlc Linux kernel driver bypassing SMEP
• Dirty COW and why lying is bad even if you are the Linux kernel
• Enumeration for Linux Privilege Escalation
• Escaping Docker container using waitid() – CVE-2017-5123
• Exploit Dev 0x01 | 64-bit Linux Stack Buffer Overflow
• Exploiting the Linux kernel via packet sockets
• Kernel Exploitation | Dereferencing a NULL pointer!
• Linux (x86) Exploit Development Series
• Linux Heap Exploitation Intro Series: The magicians cape – 1 Byte Overflow
• Linux Heap Exploitation Intro Series: Used and Abused – Use After Free
• Linux Kernel ROP - Ropping your way to # (Part 1)
• Linux Kernel ROP - Ropping your way to # (Part 2)
• Linux Kernel Vulnerability Can Lead to Privilege Escalation: Analyzing CVE-2017-1000112
• Linux System Call Table
• Reversing DirtyC0W
• xairy/linux-kernel-exploitation

Windows

• 0patching the "Immortal" CVE-2017-7269
• 15 Ways to Bypass the PowerShell Execution Policy
• A Bug Has No Name: Multiple Heap Buffer Overflows In the Windows DNS Client
• Abusing A Writable Windows Service
• Abusing Delay Load DLLs for Remote Code Injection
• Abusing GDI objects: Bitmap object’s size in the kernel pool
• A deeper look at ms11-058
• An Inside Look at CVE-2017-0199 – HTA and Scriptlet File Handler Vulnerability
• Analysis of CVE-2017-11882 Exploit in the Wild
• AtomBombing: Brand New Code Injection for Windows
• AtomBombing CFG Protected Processes
• Breaking backwards compatibility: a 5 year old bug deep within Windows
• Breaking out of Restricted Windows Environment
• Bringing Call Gates Back
• Bypassing Microsoft's Patch for CVE-2017-0199
• C# Inject a Dll into a Process (w/ CreateRemoteThread)
• Decrement Windows kernel for fun and profit
• DEFEATING DEVICE GUARD: A LOOK INTO CVE-2017-0007
• Detecting and mitigating elevation-of-privilege exploit for CVE-2017-0005
• Digging Into a Windows Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability: CVE-2016-7255
• Disarming EMET 5.52: Controlling it all with a single write action
• Enumerating process, thread, and image load notification callback routines in Windows
• EternalBlue – Everything there is to know
• Exploit Kit Rendezvous and CVE-2017-0022
• Exploiting MS16-145: MS Edge TypedArray.sort Use-After-Free (CVE-2016-7288)
• Exploiting MS16-098 RGNOBJ Integer Overflow on Windows 8.1 x64 bit by abusing GDI objects
• Exploring Windows virtual memory management
• From Out Of Memory to Remote Code Execution
• Getting Code Execution on Windows by Abusing Default Kernel Debugging Setting
• Hardening Windows 10 with zero-day exploit mitigations
• Inject All the Things
• Introduction to IA-32e hardware paging
• Introduction to Windows Kernel Driver Exploitation (Pt. 1) - Environment Setup
• Introduction to Windows Kernel Driver Exploitation (Pt. 2) - Stack Buffer Overflow to System Shell
• Kernel Debugging 101 – Part1
• Kernel Debugging 101 – Part2
• Kernel Debugging 101 – Part3
• Kernel Exploitation Case Study - "Wild" Pool Overflow on Win10 x64 RS2 (CVE-2016-3309 Reloaded)
• Kernel Pool Overflow Exploitation In Real World – Windows 7
• Kernel Pool Overflow Exploitation In Real World – Windows 10
• Microsoft Kills Potential Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Office (CVE-2017-8630)
• MS17-010: EternalBlue’s Large Non-Paged Pool Overflow in SRV Driver
• MS OFFICE EXPLOIT ANALYSIS – CVE-2015-1641
• ON THE ROAD OF HIDING… PEB, PE FORMAT HANDLING AND DLL LOADING HOMEMADE APIS – PART 1
• ON THE ROAD OF HIDING… PEB, PE FORMAT HANDLING AND DLL LOADING HOMEMADE APIS – PART 2
• ON THE ROAD OF HIDING… PEB, PE FORMAT HANDLING AND DLL LOADING HOMEMADE APIS – PART 3
• ON THE ROAD OF HIDING… PEB, PE FORMAT HANDLING AND DLL LOADING HOMEMADE APIS – LAST PART
• Puppet Strings - Dirty Secret for Windows Ring 0 Code Execution
• Reading Your Way Around UAC (Part 1)
• Reading Your Way Around UAC (Part 2)
• Reading Your Way Around UAC (Part 3)
• Reflective DLL Injection
• Rotten Potato – Privilege Escalation from Service Accounts to SYSTEM
• sam-b/windows_kernel_resources
• Sharks in the Pool :: Mixed Object Exploitation in the Windows Kernel Pool
• Signing Mimikatz
• Skeleton in the closet. MS Office vulnerability you didn’t know about
• Starting with Windows Kernel Exploitation – part 1 – setting up the lab
• Starting with Windows Kernel Exploitation – part 2 – getting familiar with HackSys Extreme Vulnerable Driver
• Starting with Windows Kernel Exploitation – part 3 – stealing the Access Token
• Tales from the MSRC: from pixels to POC
• The Art of Becoming TrustedInstaller
• The lonely potato
• The Unpatched LSASS Remote Denial of Service (MS16-137)
• Using Binary Diffing to Discover Windows Kernel Memory Disclosure Bugs
• Windows 10 Creators Update 32-bit execution of ring-0 code from NULL page via NtQuerySystemInformation (class 185, Warbird functionality)
• Windows Exploitation Tricks: Arbitrary Directory Creation to Arbitrary File Read
• Windows kernel pool spraying fun - Part 1 - Determine kernel object size
• Windows kernel pool spraying fun - Part 2 - More objects
• Windows kernel pool spraying fun - Part 3 - Let's make holes
• Windows kernel pool spraying fun - Part 4 - object & pool headers, kex & putting it all together
• Windows Kernel Exploitation Part 1
• Windows Kernel Exploitation Part 2
• Windows Kernel Exploitation Part 3
• Windows Kernel Exploitation – Arbitrary Overwrite
• Windows Kernel Exploitation : This Time Font hunt you down in 4 bytes
• Zero Day Zen Garden: Windows Exploit Development - Part 0 [Dev Setup & Advice]
• Zero Day Zen Garden: Windows Exploit Development - Part 1 [Stack Buffer Overflow Intro]
• Zero Day Zen Garden: Windows Exploit Development - Part 2 [JMP to Locate Shellcode]
• Zero Day Zen Garden: Windows Exploit Development - Part 3 [Egghunter to Locate Shellcode]

Techniques

Bypassing ASLR

Any related techniques for ASLR bypassing

• Bypassing ASLR – Part I
• Bypassing ASLR – Part II
• Bypassing ASLR – Part III
• Exploit Mitigation Techniques - Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR)

Format Strings

Format strings exploitation

• Format String Exploitation Primer
• X86 EXPLOITATION 101: “FORMAT STRINGS” – I’LL TELL YA WHAT TO SAY

Heap Exploitation

Heap exploitation related articles and tutorials

• Heap Exploitation
• Heap Exploitation ~ Fastbin Attack
• Heap Exploitation ~ Abusing Use-After-Free
• Heap overflow using unlink
• Heap overflow using Malloc Maleficarum
• shellphishi/how2heap
• X86 EXPLOITATION 101: HEAP OVERFLOWS… UNLINK ME, WOULD YOU PLEASE?
• X86 EXPLOITATION 101: THIS IS THE FIRST WITCHY HOUSE
• X86 EXPLOITATION 101: “HOUSE OF MIND” – UNDEAD AND LOVING IT…
• X86 EXPLOITATION 101: “HOUSE OF FORCE” – JEDI OVERFLOW
• X86 EXPLOITATION 101: “HOUSE OF LORE” – PEOPLE AND TRADITIONS
• Understanding the Heap & Exploiting Heap Overflows

Integer Overflow

Integer overflow epxloitaion

• Integer Overflow
• X86 EXPLOITATION 101: “INTEGER OVERFLOW” – ADDING ONE MORE… AAAAAAAAAAAND IT’S GONE

Return Oriented Programming

ROP cases and guidelines

• A ROP Primer solution 64-bit style
• Blind Return Oriented Programming 102
• Intro to ROP: ROP Emporium — Split
• Introduction to Return Oriented Programming (ROP)
• Return-Oriented Programming (ROP) 101
• ROP Emporium
• ROP Primer
• Sigreturn Oriented Programming

return-to-libc

return-to-libc techniques

• Bypassing NX bit using return-to-libc
• Bypassing NX bit using chained return-to-libc

Shellcoding

Art of crafting shellcode

• SLAE: Bind TCP Shell – Assignment 1
• SLAE: Reverse TCP Shell – Assignment 2
• SLAE: Egg Hunter – Assignment 3

Stack Exploitation

Corrupt the stack

• Buffer Overflow Explotation
• Classic Stack Based Buffer Overflow
• Exploiting 1-byte buffer overflows
• PLAYING WITH CANARIES
• Simple buffer overflow on a modern system
• Stack Clashing for Fun and Profit
• When is something overflowing
• X86 EXPLOITATION 101: WHEN THE STACK GETS OVER ITS HEAD
• X86 EXPLOITATION 101: BORN IN A SHELL
• X86 EXPLOITATION 101: “HOUSE OF SPIRIT” – FRIENDLY STACK OVERFLOW
• Your First Buffer Overflow

Trusted Execution

Various techniques to execute malicious binary with trusted, bypassing security protection

• Execute unsigned binary via signed Tracker.exe (required Tracker.exe and TrackerUI.dll)

Use-After-Free

Use-After-Free related arcitles

• Use-After-Free

Malware Analysis

• A zebra in sheep’s clothing: How a Microsoft icon-display bug in Windows allows attackers to masquerade PE files with special icons
• baderj/domain_generation_algorithms - Some results of my DGA reversing efforts
• CCleaner's backdoor analysis
  • Protecting the Software Supply Chain: Deep Insights into the CCleaner Backdoor
  • In-Depth Analysis of the CCleaner Backdoor Stage 2 Dropper and Its Payload
• Fast Flux networks: What are they and how do they work?
• FIN7 Group Uses JavaScript and Stealer DLL Variant in New Attacks
• High-reputation Redirectors and Domain Fronting
• Hunting For In-Memory .NET Attacks
• Hunting Malware with Memory Analysis
• Reverse Engineering Malware
• Reverse Engineering Malware: Why YOU Should Study Reverse Engineering Malware
• Reverse Engineering Malware, Part 1: Getting Started
• Reverse Engineering Malware, Part 2: Assembler Language Basics
• Reverse Engineering Malware, Part 3: IDA Pro Introduction
• Reverse Engineering Malware, Part 4: Windows Internals
• Reverse Engineering Malware, Part 5: OllyDbg Basics
• ThreatHuntingProject/ThreatHunting
• Tips for Reverse-Engineering Malicious Code
• Understanding Process Hollowing
• Use of DNS Tunneling for C&C Communications
• List of interesting Windows APIs used by malware

WNetAddConnection

The WNetAddConnection function enables the calling application to connect a local device to a network resource. A successful connection is persistent, meaning that the system automatically restores the connection during subsequent logon operations. An example of malware that implement this function can be found below: Icedid trojan in its network propagation function

• Malware analysis environment setup
  • Knowledge Fragment: Hardening Win7 x64 on VirtualBox for Malware Analysis
• Use Trust access to the VBA project object model to circumvent security control of VBA script on Microsoft Office
  • Original stories can be found on MS Office Built-In Feature Could be Exploited to Create Self-Replicating Malware and Virus Bulletin June 2001
  • The option Trust access to the VBA project object model, according to Office Support, can be used to allow programmatic access to the VBA object model from an automation client. This option is controlled by registry key available on HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Word\Security with AccessVBOM, 0 for disable and 1 for enable.
• Add-In Opportunities for Office Persistence
• Anti-debugging Techniques Cheat Sheet
• AntiForensics techniques : Process hiding in Kernel Mode
• Borrowing Microsoft Code Signing Certificate
• Creating ransomware for Android
• Detecting Architecture in Windows
• HIDING YOUR PROCESS FROM SYSINTERNALS
• If memory doesn’t serve me right…
• MetaTwin – Borrowing Microsoft Metadata and Digital Signatures to “Hide” Binaries
• PE File Infection Part I
• PE File Infection Part II
• Persistence ideas:
  • Use IMAGE_FILE_EXECUTION_OPTION in conjunction with HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run or HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run (required priveilleged)
    • If there is some application that already in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
    • Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options, create a key named by some application and under this key create a REG_SZ titled Debugger with the value being C:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe
    • Test run with that some application
  • Persistent on Services
• Running programs via Proxy & jumping on a EDR-bypass trampoline
• Running programs via Proxy & jumping on a EDR-bypass trampoline, Part 2
• Running programs via Proxy & jumping on a EDR-bypass trampoline, Part 3
• Running programs via Proxy & jumping on a EDR-bypass trampoline, Part 4
• Ten Process Injection Techniques: A Technical Survey Of Common And Trending Process Injection Techniques
• The Archaeologologogology #3 – Downloading stuff with cmdln32

Malware Variants

• ATM malware
  • Bingo, Amigo! Jackpotting: ATM malware from Latin America to the World
• Badrabbit
  • ‘BadRabbit’ Ransomware Burrows Into Russia, Ukraine
  • BadRabbit: a closer look at the new version of Petya/NotPetya
  • Bad Rabbit: Not-Petya is back with improved ransomware
  • Bad Rabbit – A New Ransomware Outbreak Targeting Ukraine and Russia.
  • Bad Rabbit ransomware
  • Bad Rabbit Ransomware Spreads via Network, Hits Ukraine and Russia
  • NotPetya Returns as Bad Rabbit
  • Threat Spotlight: Follow the Bad Rabbit
• Bankbot
  • A Look Into The New Strain of BankBot
• Emotet
  • Emotet lives another day using Fake O2 invoice notifications
• Hajime
  • Is Hajime botnet dead?
• Locky
  • Locky Part 1: Lukitus Spam Campaigns and Their Love for Game of Thrones
  • Locky Part 2: As the Seasons Change so is Locky
• Kangaroo
  • Threat Analysis: Don’t Forget About Kangaroo Ransomware
• MAN1
  • Threat Spotlight - MAN1 Malware: Temple of Doom
  • Threat Spotlight: MAN1 Malware - The Last Crusade?
• Poison Ivy
  • Deep Analysis of New Poison Ivy Variant
  • Deep Analysis of New Poison Ivy/PlugX Variant - Part II
• Rig EK
  • if you want to get #RigEK's enc key, please use this script
• Trickbot
  • Reverse engineering malware: TrickBot (part 1 - packer)
  • Reverse engineering malware: TrickBot (part 2 - loader)
  • Reverse engineering malware: TrickBot (part 3 - core)

Reverse Engineering

• A Gentle Primer on Reverse Engineering
• ELF hacking with Rekall
• FAQ: How to learn reverse-engineering?
• Reverse Engineering 101

Tutorials

This section contains links about tool tutorials, cheat sheet and techniques.

American Fuzzy Lop	Fuzzing Apache httpd server with American Fuzzy Lop + persistent mode Fuzzing Irssi Fuzzing the MSXML6 library with WinAFL HACK THE HACKER – FUZZING MIMIKATZ ON WINDOWS WITH WINAFL & HEATMAPS (0DAY) How we found a tcpdump vulnerability using cloud fuzzing Internals of AFL fuzzer - Compile Time Instrumentation
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	open-guides/og-aws
Binary Ninja	2000 cuts with Binary Ninja Automated Opaque Predicate Removal Pin Visual Coverage Tool For Binary Ninja Untangling Exotic Architectures with Binary Ninja
BloodHound	Lay of the Land with BloodHound
Docker	Making right things using Docker
Elasticsearch	A Practical Introduction to Elasticsearch
Frida	Application Introspection & Hooking With Frida
IDA Pro	IDA series, part 1: the Hex-Rays decompiler IDA series, part 2: debugging a .NET executable
Masscan	A Masscan Tutorial and Primer
Mimikatz	Unofficial Guide to Mimikatz & Command Reference
MISP	remg427/misp42splunk
osquery	Tracking a stolen code-signing certificate with osquery osquery Across the Enterprise
RunPE	RunPE: How to hide code behind a legit process
Splunk	The Windows Splunk Logging Cheat Sheet
Sysmon	Sysinternals Sysmon suspicious activity guide Sysmon doing lines Mhaggis/sysmon-dfir Deploying Sysmon through Group Policy (GPO) Advanced Sysmon filtering using Logstash Threat Hunting with Sysmon: Word Document with Macro Monitoring the monitor: Sysmon status
Radare2	A journey into Radare 2 – Part 1: Simple crackme A journey into Radare 2 – Part 2: Exploitation An Intro to x86_64 Reverse Engineering Emulating Assembly in Radare2 Pwnable.kr - Passcode r2wiki radare2 as an alternative to gdb-peda Reverse Engineering Using Radare2
Volatility	Volatility, my own cheatsheet (Part 1): Image Identification Volatility, my own cheatsheet (Part 2): Processes and DLLs Volatility, my own cheatsheet (Part 3): Process Memory Volatility, my own cheatsheet (Part 4): Kernel Memory and Objects Volatility, my own cheatsheet (Part 5): Networking Volatility, my own cheatsheet (Part 6): Windows Registry Volatility, my own cheatsheet (Part 7): Analyze and convert crash dumps and hibernation files Volatility, my own cheatsheet (Part 8): Filesystem Using Yara rules with Volatility
WinDBG	Anti-Antidebugging WinDbg Scripts bulentrahimkazanci/Windbg-Cheat-Sheet WinDBG and JavaScript Analysis

Web Application Security

Web application security related articles and tutorials

• Gaining access for HTTPS certificate by abusing RFC2142.
  • Using admin@, administrator@, hostmaster@, postmaster@, webmaster@ for email address
• The 2018 Guide to Building Secure PHP Software

Cross-site Request Forgery

• 10 Methods to Bypass Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
• What is CSRF , Preventions? And How to bypass the CSRF protection via XSS?

SQL Injection

• MySQL UDF Exploitation
• NetSPI SQL Injection Wiki
• Your Pokemon Guide for Essential SQL Pen Test Commands

Tools

AWS Security

Open source projects related to AWS security.

airbnb/BinaryAlert	BinaryAlert: Serverless, Real-time & Retroactive Malware Detection
cloudsploit/scans	AWS security scanning checks
nccgroup/Scout2	Security auditing tool for AWS environments
Netflix/security_monkey	Security Monkey monitors your AWS and GCP accounts for policy changes and alerts on insecure configurations.
Alfresco/prowler	Tool for AWS security assessment, auditing and hardening. It follows guidelines of the CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark.
SecurityFTW/cs-suite	Cloud Security Suite - One stop tool for auditing the security posture of AWS infrastructure.

Binary Analysis

Binary analysis tools, including decompilers, deobfuscators, disassemblers, etc.

avast-tl/retdec	RetDec is a retargetable machine-code decompiler based on LLVM
enkomio/shed	.NET runtine inspector. Shed - Inspect .NET malware like a Sir
fireeye/flare-floss	FireEye Labs Obfuscated String Solver - Automatically extract obfuscated strings from malware.
hasherezade/hook_finder	a small tool for investigating inline hooks (and other in-memory code patches)
LIEF	Library to Instrument Executable Formats
pierrezurek/Signsrch	tool for searching signatures inside files, extremely useful in reversing engineering for figuring or having an initial idea of what encryption/compression algorithm is used for a proprietary protocol or file. it can recognize tons of compression, multimedia and encryption algorithms and many other things like known strings and anti-debugging code which can be also manually added since it's all based on a text signature file read at runtime and easy to modify.
VisUAL	A highly visual ARM emulator
williballenthin/python-idb	Pure Python parser and analyzer for IDA Pro database files (.idb).

Cryptography

Cryptography related tools

mpgn/BEAST-PoC	Poc of BEAST attack against SSL/TLS
mpgn/Padding-oracle-attack	Padding oracle attack against PKCS7
mpgn/poodle-PoC	Poodle (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) attack

Data Exfiltration

Tools related to data exfiltration and covert channels

evilsocket/sg1	A wanna be swiss army knife for data encryption, exfiltration and covert communication.
pentestpartners/PTP-RAT	Exfiltrate data over screen interfaces. For more information.
sensepost/DET	DET (is provided AS IS), is a proof of concept to perform Data Exfiltration using either single or multiple channel(s) at the same time.

DevOps

DevSecOps stuff, or SevDevOps, or DevOpsSec, or SecDevSecOpsSec!?

GoogleCloudPlatform/container-diff

container-diff is a tool for analyzing and comparing container images. container-diff can examine images along several different criteria, including: Docker Image History, Image file system, packages, etc.

Digital Forensics and Incident Response

Open source projects related to DFIR topic.

$I File Parser	Free Forensics Tool – $I File Parser
ANSSI-FR/bits_parser	Extract BITS jobs from QMGR queue and store them as CSV records
Cyb3rWard0g/HELK	A Hunting ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) with advanced analytic capabilities.
Invoke-IR/ACE	The Automated Collection and Enrichment (ACE) platform is a suite of tools for threat hunters to collect data from many endpoints in a network and automatically enrich the data. The data is collected by running scripts on each computer without installing any software on the target. ACE supports collecting from Windows, macOS, and Linux hosts.
google/grr	GRR is a python client (agent) that is installed on target systems, and python server infrastructure that can manage and talk to clients.
google/rekall	The Rekall Framework is a completely open collection of tools, implemented in Python under the Apache and GNU General Public License, for the extraction and analysis of digital artifacts computer systems.
intezer/linux-explorer	Easy-to-use live forensics toolbox for Linux endpoints
Invoke-IR/PowerForensics	PowerForensics provides an all in one platform for live disk forensic analysis
MalwareSoup/MitreAttack	Python wrapper for the Mitre ATT&CK framework API
nannib/Imm2Virtual	This is a GUI (for Windows 64 bit) for a procedure to virtualize your EWF(E01), DD(Raw), AFF disk image file without converting it, directly with VirtualBox, forensically proof.
williballenthin/INDXParse	Tool suite for inspecting NTFS artifacts
nshalabi/SysmonTools	Utilities for Sysmon (Sysmon View and Sysmon Shell)
refractionPOINT/limacharlie	LC is an Open Source, cross-platform (Windows, MacOS, Linux ++), realtime Endpoint Detection and Response sensor. The extra-light sensor, once installed on a system provides Flight Data Recorder type information (telemetry on all aspects of the system like processes, DNS, network IO, file IO etc).
The Sleuth Kit	sleuthkit.org is the official website for The Sleuth Kit®, Autopsy®, and other open source digital investigation tools. From here, you can find documents, case studies, and download the latest versions of the software.
THIBER-ORG/userline	Query and report user logons relations from MS Windows Security Events
TryCatchHCF/DumpsterFire	"Security Incidents In A Box!" A modular, menu-driven, cross-platform tool for building customized, time-delayed, distributed security events. Easily create custom event chains for Blue Team drills and sensor / alert mapping. Red Teams can create decoy incidents, distractions, and lures to support and scale their operations. Build event sequence…
williballenthin/EVTXtract	EVTXtract recovers and reconstructs fragments of EVTX log files from raw binary data, including unallocated space and memory images.

Exploits

Interesting exploits and PoC code. For research purpose only

CVE-2016-7255	The kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and 1607, and Windows Server 2016 allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability." IOActive/I-know-where-your-page-lives
CVE-2017-5123	The `waitid` implementation in upstream kernels did not restrict the target destination to copy information results. This can allow local users to write to otherwise protected kernel memory, which can lead to privilege escalation. nongiach/CVE
CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754	Meltdown and Spectre exploit critical vulnerabilities in modern processors. These hardware bugs allow programs to steal data which is currently processed on the computer. While programs are typically not permitted to read data from other programs, a malicious program can exploit Meltdown and Spectre to get hold of secrets stored in the memory of other running programs. This might include your passwords stored in a password manager or browser, your personal photos, emails, instant messages and even business-critical documents. Explanation threat by @gsuverland Eugnis/spectre-attack IAIK/meltdown lgeek/spec_poc_arm paboldin/meltdown-exploit Meltdown and Spectre Reading privileged memory with a side-channel CPU hardware vulnerable to side-channel attacks ionescu007/SpecuCheck raphaelsc/Am-I-affected-by-Meltdown Detection tool (2)
CVE-2017-7089	A logic issue existed in the handling of the parent-tab. This issue was addressed with improved state management. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to universal cross site scripting. Bo0oM/CVE-2017-7089
CVE-2017-7115	The exploit achieves R/W access to the host's physical memory. The password for the archive is "one_ring". This exploit has been tested on the iPhone 7, iOS 10.2 (14C92). To run the exploit against different devices or versions, the symbols must be adjusted. Apple: Multiple Race Conditions in PCIe Message Ring protocol leading to OOB Write and OOB Read
CVE-2017-8464	Windows Shell in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allows local users or remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted .LNK file, which is not properly handled during icon display in Windows Explorer or any other application that parses the icon of the shortcut. aka "LNK Remote Code Execution Vulnerability." CVE-2017-8464 - Microsoft Windows - '.LNK' Shortcut File Code Execution
CVE-2017-8759	Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, 3.5, 3.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2 and 4.7 allow an attacker to execute code remotely via a malicious document or application, aka ".NET Framework Remote Code Execution Vulnerability." MyPython/exploit/CVE-2017-8759/CVE-2017-8759_exploit_rtf.py vysec/CVE-2017-8759 CVE-2017-8759 - Malware Sample
CVE-2017-11882	Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3, Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1, and Microsoft Office 2016 allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the current user by failing to properly handle objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-11884. embedi/CVE-2017-11882 Sample of malware used CVE-2017-11882
CVE-2017-13082	Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA and WPA2) that supports IEEE 802.11r allows reinstallation of the Pairwise Transient Key (PTK) Temporal Key (TK) during the fast BSS transmission (FT) handshake, allowing an attacker within radio range to replay, decrypt, or spoof frames. the KRACK attack website KRACK attack research paper vanhoefm/krackttacks-test-ap-ft
CVE-2017-15944	Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS before 6.1.19, 7.0.x before 7.0.19, 7.1.x before 7.1.14, and 8.0.x before 8.0.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving the management interface. CVE-2017-15944: Palo Alto Networks firewalls remote root code execution Exploit verification script
CVE-2017-17215	Huawei Router HG532 - Arbitrary Command Execution
CVE-2018-0743	Windows Subsystem for Linux in Windows 10 version 1703, Windows 10 version 1709, and Windows Server, version 1709 allows an elevation of privilege vulnerability due to the way objects are handled in memory, aka "Windows Subsystem for Linux Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability". saaramar/execve_exploit
CVE-2018-4878	A critical vulnerability (CVE-2018-4878) exists in Adobe Flash Player 28.0.0.137 and earlier versions. Successful exploitation could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Malicious 0-day XLSX sample
FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories	The PHP Security Advisories Database references known security vulnerabilities in various PHP projects and libraries. This database must not serve as the primary source of information for security issues, it is not authoritative for any referenced software, but it allows to centralize information for convenience and easy consumption.
https://github.com/hasherezade/process_doppelganging	My implementation of enSilo's Process Doppelganging (PE injection technique)
gellin/TeamViewer_Permissions_Hook_V1	A proof of concept injectable C++ dll, that uses naked inline hooking and direct memory modification to change your TeamViewer permissions.
ScottyBauer/Android_Kernel_CVE_POCs	A list of my CVE's with POCs
Spajed/processrefund	An attempt at Process Doppelgänging
spencerdodd/kernelpop	Kernel privilege escalation enumeration and exploitation framework
tunz/js-vuln-db	A collection of JavaScript engine CVEs with PoCs
victims/victims-cve-db	This database contains information regarding CVE(s) that affect various language modules. We currently store version information corresponding to respective modules as understood by select sources.
xairy/kernel-exploits	A bunch of proof-of-concept exploits for the Linux kernel

Malware Analysis

Tools related to malware analysis, malware development (for research purpose) and malware sample finding

adamkramer/rapid_env	Rapid deployment of Windows environment (files, registry keys, mutex etc) to facilitate malware analysis
alphasoc/flightsim	A utility to generate malicious network traffic and evaluate controls
Cryptam Document Scanner	Encrypted/obfuscated malicious document analyzer
DAS MALWERK	DAS MALWERK - your one stop shop for fresh malware samples
FAME	FAME Automates Malware Evaluation
hasherezade/libpeconv/runpe	RunPE (aka Process Hollowing) is a well known technique allowing to injecting a new PE into a remote processes, imprersonating this process. The given implementation works for PE 32bit as well as 64bit.
hegusung/AVSignSeek	Tool written in python3 to determine where the AV signature is located in a binary/payload
IRIS-H	IRIS-H is an online digital forensics tool that performs automated static analysis of files stored in a directory-based or strictly structured formats.
katjahahn/PortEx	Java library to analyse Portable Executable files with a special focus on malware analysis and PE malformation robustness
LordNoteworthy/al-khaser	Public malware techniques used in the wild: Virtual Machine, Emulation, Debuggers, Sandbox detection.
Malpedia	The primary goal of Malpedia is to provide a resource for rapid identification and actionable context when investigating malware. Openness to curated contributions shall ensure an accountable level of quality in order to foster meaningful and reproducible research.
malwareinfosec/EKFiddle	A framework based on the Fiddler web debugger to study Exploit Kits, malvertising and malicious traffic in general.
Neo23x0/APTSimulator	A toolset to make a system look as if it was the victim of an APT attack
nsmfoo/antivmdetection	Script to create templates to use with VirtualBox to make vm detection harder
OALabs/BlobRunner	Quickly debug shellcode extracted during malware analysis
quasar/QuasarRAT	Quasar is a fast and light-weight remote administration tool coded in C#. Providing high stability and an easy-to-use user interface, Quasar is the perfect remote administration solution for you.
GoSecure/malboxes	Builds malware analysis Windows VMs so that you don't have to.
SafeBreach-Labs/mkmalwarefrom	Proof-of-concept two-stage dropper generator that uses bits from external sources
SEKOIA Dropper Analysis	SEKOIA Dropper Analysis
UNIT 42: Playbook Viewver	Viewing PAN Unit 42's adversary playbook via web interface

Mobile Security

Tools related to mobile security, mobile application auditing/debugging and mobile penetration testing

dpnishant/appmon	AppMon is an automated framework for monitoring and tampering system API calls of native macOS, iOS and android apps. It is based on Frida.
Mobile X-Ray	Just upload your iOS or Android mobile app to start a DAST, SAST and behavioral audit for OWASP Mobile Top 10 and other vulnerabilities

Network

Network and network security related tools

eldraco/domain_analyzer	Analyze the security of any domain by finding all the information possible. Made in python.
michenriksen/aquatone	AQUATONE is a set of tools for performing reconnaissance on domain names. It can discover subdomains on a given domain by using open sources as well as the more common subdomain dictionary brute force approach. After subdomain discovery, AQUATONE can then scan the hosts for common web ports and HTTP headers, HTML bodies and screenshots can be gathered and consolidated into a report for easy analysis of the attack surface.
PacketTotal	A free, online PCAP analysis engine
WireEdit	First-Of-A-Kind And The Only Full Stack WYSIWYG Pcap Editor

Password Tools

Tools related to password cracking, bruteforcing and also wordlists

fireeye/gocrack	GoCrack provides APIs to manage password cracking tasks across supported cracking engines.
sc0tfree/mentalist	Mentalist is a graphical tool for custom wordlist generation. It utilizes common human paradigms for constructing passwords and can output the full wordlist as well as rules compatible with Hashcat and John the Ripper.
danielmiessler/SecLists	SecLists is the security tester's companion. It is a collection of multiple types of lists used during security assessments. List types include usernames, passwords, URLs, sensitive data grep strings, fuzzing payloads, and many more.

Plugins

Plugins and extensions for tools

Burp Suite
lightbulb-framework/lightbulb-framework	LightBulb is an open source python framework for auditing web application firewalls and filters.
GDB
cs01/gdbgui	Browser-based frontend to gdb (gnu debugger). Add breakpoints, view the stack, visualize data structures, and more in C, C++, Go, Rust, and Fortran. Run gdbgui from the terminal and a new tab will open in your browser.
cyrus-and/gdb-dashboard	Modular visual interface for GDB in Python
longld/peda	PEDA - Python Exploit Development Assistance for GDB
IDA Pro
airbus-seclab/bincat	Binary code static analyser, with IDA integration. Performs value and taint analysis, type reconstruction.
CrowdStrike/CrowdDetox	The CrowdDetox plugin for Hex-Rays automatically removes junk code and variables from Hex-Rays function decompilations.
fireeye/SimplifyGraph	IDA Pro plugin to assist with complex graphs
gaasedelen/lighthouse	Lighthouse is a code coverage plugin for IDA Pro. The plugin leverages IDA as a platform to map, explore, and visualize externally collected code coverage data when symbols or source may not be available for a given binary.
hasherezade/ida_ifl	IFL - Interactive Functions List (plugin for IDA Pro)
joxeankoret/diaphora	Diaphora, a Free and Open Source program diffing tool
OALabs/FindYara	IDA python plugin to scan binary with Yara rules
onethawt/idaplugins-list	A list of IDA Plugins
tintinweb/ida-batch_decompile	*Decompile All the Things* - IDA Batch Decompile plugin and script for Hex-Ray's IDA Pro that adds the ability to batch decompile multiple files and their imports with additional annotations (xref, stack var size) to the pseudocode .c file
Riscure/DROP-IDA-plugin	Experimental opaque predicate detection for IDA Pro
Radare2
radareorg/cutter	A Qt and C++ GUI for radare2 reverse engineering framework
WinDBG
comaeio/SwishDbgExt	Incident Response & Digital Forensics Debugging Extension
Microsoft/DbgShell	A PowerShell front-end for the Windows debugger engine.
swwwolf/wdbgark	WinDBG Anti-RootKit Extension

Privacy

Increase your privacy and/or operational security with this tools

Security Planner

Improve your online safety with advice from experts

Simulation

Securtiy framework that can be used to simulate real attack scenario

mitre/caldera	An automated adversary emulation system
uber-common/metta	An information security preparedness tool to do adversarial simulation.

Social Engineering

Tools related to social engineering attack, OSINT and human hacking

boxug/trape	People tracker on the Internet: Learn to track the world, to avoid being traced.
dafthack/MailSniper	MailSniper is a penetration testing tool for searching through email in a Microsoft Exchange environment for specific terms (passwords, insider intel, network architecture information, etc.). It can be used as a non-administrative user to search their own email, or by an administrator to search the mailboxes of every user in a domain.
DataSploit/datasploit	An #OSINT Framework to perform various recon techniques on Companies, People, Phone Number, Bitcoin Addresses, etc., aggregate all the raw data, and give data in multiple formats.
fireeye/ReelPhish	ReelPhish: A Real-Time Two-Factor Phishing Tool
Mailsploit	TL;DR: Mailsploit is a collection of bugs in email clients that allow effective sender spoofing and code injection attacks. The spoofing is not detected by Mail Transfer Agents (MTA) aka email servers, therefore circumventing spoofing protection mechanisms such as DMARC (DKIM/SPF) or spam filters.
securestate/king-phisher	Phishing Campaign Toolkit
SpiderFoot	SpiderFoot - Opensource Intelligence Automation
Undeadsec/EvilURL	An unicode domain phishing generator for IDN Homograph Attack
ustayready/CredSniper	CredSniper is a phishing framework written with the Python micro-framework Flask and Jinja2 templating which supports capturing 2FA tokens.

Vulnerable

Vulnerable software, application, VM for research purpose and virtual environment for security testing

bkerler/exploit_me	Very vulnerable ARM application (CTF style exploitation tutorial)
clong/DetectionLab	Vagrant & Packer scripts to build a lab environment complete with security tooling and logging best practices
mitre/caldera	The CALDERA automated adversary emulation system
cliffe/SecGen	SecGen creates vulnerable virtual machines so students can learn security penetration testing techniques.
Lenas Reversing for Newbies	Nice collection of tutorials aimed particularly for newbie reverse enginners...
Vulnerable Docker VM	Ever fantasized about playing with docker misconfigurations, privilege escalation, etc. within a container?

Web Application Security

Web application security tools

appsecco/spaces-finder	A tool to hunt for publicly accessible DigitalOcean Spaces
anatshri/svn-extractor	Simple script to extract all web resources by means of .SVN folder exposed over network.
IlluminateJs	IlluminateJs is a static javascript analysis engine (a deobfuscator so to say) aimed to help analyst understand obfuscated and potentially malicious JavaScript Code.
jonluca/Anubis	Subdomain enumeration and information gathering tool
mazen160/bfac	BFAC (Backup File Artifacts Checker): An automated tool that checks for backup artifacts that may disclose the web-application's source code.
mindedsecurity/JStillery	Advanced JS Deobfuscation via Partial Evaluation.

Windows

Tools for Windows only

411Hall/JAWS	JAWS is PowerShell script designed to help penetration testers (and CTFers) quickly identify potential privilege escalation vectors on Windows systems. It is written using PowerShell 2.0 so 'should' run on every Windows version since Windows 7.
api0cradle/UltimateAppLockerByPassList	The goal of this repository is to document the most common techniques to bypass AppLocker.
google/sandbox-attacksurface-analysis-tools	This is a small suite of tools to test various properties of sandboxes on Windows. Many of the checking tools take a -p flag which is used to specify the PID of a sandboxed process. The tool will impersonate the token of that process and determine what access is allowed from that location. Also it's recommended to run these tools as an administrator or local system to ensure the system can be appropriately enumerated.
hlldz/Invoke-Phant0m	Windows Event Log Killer
jonatan1024/clrinject	Injects C# EXE or DLL Assembly into every CLR runtime and AppDomain of another process.
Live Sysinternals Tools	Live version of Sysinternal Suites
mattifestation/PoCSubjectInterfacePackage	A PoC subject interface package (SIP) provider designed to educate about the required components of a SIP provider.
sevagas/macro_pack	macro_pack is a tool used to automatize obfuscation and generation of MS Office documents for pentest, demo, and social engineering assessments. The goal of macro_pack is to simplify antimalware bypass and automatize the process from vba generation to final Office document generation.
monoxgas/sRDI	Shellcode implementation of Reflective DLL Injection. Convert DLLs to position independent shellcode
peewpw/Invoke-PSImage	Embeds a PowerShell script in the pixels of a PNG file and generates a oneliner to execute
peewpw/Invoke-WCMDump	PowerShell Script to Dump Windows Credentials from the Credential Manager
Plazmaz/LNKUp	Generates malicious LNK file payloads for data exfiltration
secretsquirrel/SigThief	Stealing Signatures and Making One Invalid Signature at a Time
stephenfewer/ReflectiveDLLInjection	Reflective DLL injection is a library injection technique in which the concept of reflective programming is employed to perform the loading of a library from memory into a host process